Prenatal diagnosis of terminal myelocystocele in the fetal surgery era: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1152-1155

  Midrio, Paola ^a   Silberstein, Howard J ^a   Bilaniuk, Larissa T ^a   Adzick, N Scott ^a   Sutton, Leslie N ^a   McLone, David G ^b   McComb, J Gordon ^b   Cohen, Alan R ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fetal surgery; Meningomyelocele; Terminal myelocystocele

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA; TERMINAL MYELOCYSTOCELE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0036590006     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200205000-00040     Document Type: Article

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